Too old for a cat? Widow criticizes animal shelter – chairwoman reacts. Bettina Brandner discovered her pet at the Innsbruck-Mentlberg animal shelter and took it to her heart.

Shortly before, she had buried her husband Sepp after a short, serious illness. “Suddenly I was all alone in the house” – my daughter in Munich, my grandson in the Bundeswehr. The widow contacted Christine Sprenger, the then chairwoman of the Mittenwald Animal Welfare Association.